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The reason is because Go is very popular where Elixir is not, if Elixir was standing where Go is now it would be pretty much the same, I guaranty you that.

• hajile 7y ago
  Erlang is a stable language that has been around for a long time (almost 35 years now). It's used for way more mission-critical code than golang is ever likely to be used for. It's weird syntax and performance tradeoffs are very well known, but you still won't see anywhere near the number of complaints that you see against golang.
  • Thaxll 7y ago
    Erlang is less and less used in telecoms and it's the only place if was really used, lot of things have switch to C/C++/Java. As for the reason why it has less complains it's pretty simple no one uses Erlang and it's a niche, it's not a generic purpose language. I can't even tell a single known application or library written in Erlang.
    • pmarreck 7y ago
      Ah yes. Whoever's heard of Whatsapp, Pinterest, Discord, and Goldman Sachs? https://codesync.global/media/successful-companies-using-elixir-and-erlang/ https://codesync.global/media/successful-companies-using-eli...
    • hajile 7y ago
      IBM Cloudant runs everything CouchDB which is written in Erlang as does Amazon for SimpleDB. WhatsApp and a bunch of Pinterest are written in Erlang (they may actually be in Elixir, but on BEAM). To my knowledge Ericsson still writes most things in Erlang. Yahoo uses it for a couple large services. My company use PagerDuty which is also written on BEAM. I'm sure there are many, many other things in not familiar with, but claims of Erlang's demise are greatly exaggerated.
      • ptr 7y ago
        Erlang is mainly used in the control plane at Ericsson -- you'd never write a DSP in it for example. Most code is sadly not Erlang.
    • pjmlp 7y ago
      Just like Go only matters mostly to Docker and K8s shops.
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    • jstimpfle 7y ago
      ejabberd is one that I had installed at some point.